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Tara Callaghan is a Professor of Psychology at Saint Francis Xavier University, located in Canada. Her research focuses on symbolic and prosocial development, exploring how cultural environments shape these behaviors from infancy. She conducts studies in Canada, India, and Peru, emphasizing cross-cultural comparisons. Her work integrates developmental and cultural psychology to understand the origins of human symbolic representation and prosociality.
Her research interests include the interplay between symbolic systems (e.g., pictorial symbols) and prosocial behaviors (e.g., sharing, helping), with a particular focus on cultural influences. She investigates how collaboration, fairness, and equity emerge in diverse societies, often involving refugee populations and rural communities.
Recent articles highlight studies on third-party punishment in children across cultures, interventions for Rohingya refugee children, and the developmental roots of cooperative behaviors. Her work combines empirical field studies with computational models to analyze inequity aversion and moral decision-making.
No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided texts. Tara advises students on projects related to cultural developmental psychology, though specific student names are not mentioned here. Her lab (Annex 122A) supports studies on graphic symbol functioning and cross-cultural moral development.
